US5066870A - Charge pump having pull-up circuit operating with two clock pulse sequences - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to semiconductor circuits, and more specifically to a charge pump which is used in integrated circuits.
- a prior art charge pump comprises a charge-up circuit 1 and a pull-up circuit 2.
- Charge-up circuit 1 is formed by an N-channel enhancement mode MOSFET (field effect transistor) 1 whose drain and gate are coupled to a voltage supply 4 at voltage V CC and whose source is coupled to the drain and gate of an N-channel enhancement mode MOSFET 5 of charge-up circuit 2 and hence to a clock source ⁇ through a capacitor 6.
- the source of MOSFET 5 is coupled to an output terminal 7 which is in turn connected to a suitable utilization circuit.
- the voltage at the drain of MOSFET 5-2 is driven to a level equal to (V CC -V Te )+(V ⁇ -V Te ) when the opposite phase clock is at low level.
- the drain of MOSFET 5-2 is driven to a level equal to (V CC -V Te )+(V ⁇ -V Te )+V.sub. ⁇ which is applied through MOSFET 5-2 to the drain of MOSFET 5-3, which, as a result, rises to a level (V CC -V Te )+(V ⁇ -V Te )+(V ⁇ -V Te ).
- the output voltage of this multi-stage circuit is equal to (V cc -V Te )+N(V.sub. ⁇ -V Te ), where N represents the number of cascaded pull-up circuits 2.
- V.sub. ⁇ is set equal to V CC
- a charge pump which comprises a charge-up circuit connected to a voltage source, a pull-up circuit connected to the charge-up circuit, and a clock generator.
- the pull-up circuit is formed by an enhancement mode field-effect transistor and a time constant circuit.
- the clock generator generates first and second clock pulse sequences respectively at first and second output terminals thereof.
- the field-effect transistor has a drain-source path coupled between the charge-up circuit and the output terminal of the charge pump.
- the time constant circuit is formed by two capacitors and a resistive element connected therebetween, the time constant circuit being connected across the first and second output terminals of the clock generator for successively applying voltages to one end of the drain-source path and gate of the field-effect transistor in response to the first and second clock pulse sequences.
- the first clock pulse sequence has a pulse duration greater than the pulse duration of the second clock pulse sequence.
- the charge-up circuit comprises a depletion mode field-effect transistor having its drain coupled to the voltage source, and its source connected to the drain of the enhancement mode field-effect transistor of the pull-up circuit.
- the gate of this depletion mode field-effect transistor is responsive to a clock pulse which occurs prior to the first clock pulse sequence.
- the charge-up circuit comprises an enhancement mode field-effect transistor and a time constant circuit associated with this field-effect transistor.
- This enhancement mode field-effect transistor has its drain-source path connected between the voltage source and one end of the drain-source path of the field-effect transistor of the pull-up circuit.
- the clock generator additionally generates two clock pulse sequences with successive pulses preceding the clock sequences supplied to the pull-up circuit.
- the time constant circuit of the charge-up circuit is responsive to the additional clock pulse sequences to successively apply voltages to the gate of the associated enhancement mode field-effect transistor.
- the present invention further provides a multi-stage charge pump which includes a charge-up circuit connected to a voltage source, a clock generator for generating first, second, third and fourth clock pulse sequences for pull-up operation.
- a first pull-up circuit comprises a first enhancement mode field-effect transistor having its drain coupled to the charge-up circuit, a first time constant circuit responds to the first and second clock sequences by successively applying voltages to one end of the drain-source path and gate of the first field-effect transistor.
- a second pull-up circuit comprises a second enhancement mode field-effect transistor having one end its drain-source path connected to the other end of the drain-source path of the first enhancement mode field-effect transistor, the other end of its drain-source path being coupled to an output terminal of the charge pump.
- a second time constant circuit responds to the third and fourth clock pulse sequences by successively applying voltages to one end of the drain-source path and gate of the second enhancement mode field-effect transistor.
- FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram of a prior art charge pump
- FIG. 2 is a waveform diagram associated with the prior art charge pump
- FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram of a prior art multi-stage charge pump
- FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram of a charge pump according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a waveform diagram associated with the embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 6 is a circuit diagram of a multi-stage charge pump of this invention.
- FIG. 7 is a circuit diagram of a modification of this invention.
- FIG. 8 is a circuit diagram of a further modification of this invention.
- the charge pump shown at 10 comprises a charge-up circuit 11 and a pull-up circuit 12.
- Charge-up circuit 11 comprises an N-channel enhancement mode MOSFET 13 having a gate G 1 coupled through a resistor 14 to a clock source 20 to receive a first clock pulse sequence ⁇ 1 and through a capacitor 15 to receive a second clock sequence ⁇ 2 .
- MOSFET 13 has its drain D 1 connected to a voltage supply 21 to receive source voltage V CC and its source S 1 coupled to the drain D 2 of an N-channel enhancement mode MOSFET 16 of charge-up circuit 12.
- MOSFET 16 has its gate G 2 and drain D 2 coupled together by a resistor 17, with the drain D 2 being further coupled through a capacitor 18 to clock source 20 to receive a third clock sequence ⁇ 3 and the gate G 2 being further coupled through a capacitor 19 to the clock source to receive a fourth clock sequence ⁇ 4 .
- Resistor 14 and capacitor 15 form a series circuit across terminals ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 2 of clock source 20 with a time constant value R 1 -C 1 (where R 1 and C 1 are the resistance and capacitance values of resistor 14 and capacitor 15, respectively).
- resistor 17 and capacitor 19 present a series circuit between drain D 2 of MOSFET 16 and clock terminal ⁇ 4 with a time constant value C 2 -R 2 (where C 2 is the capacitance of capacitor 19 and R 2 is the resistance of resistor 17).
- the source S 2 of MOSFET 16 is coupled to the output terminal 22 of the charge pump 10 to which a utilization circuit is connected.
- the first to fourth clock sequences have the waveforms as shown in FIG. 5.
- the first and third clock sequences ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 3 are of opposite polarity of the same clock period which is twice the period of clock sequences ⁇ 2 and ⁇ 4 so that these clock sequences produce a unique combination of four different voltage levels respectively for periods T 1 , T 2 , T 3 and T 4 .
- clock sequence ⁇ 1 is at high voltage V.sub. ⁇ and all other clock sequences are at zero voltage.
- clock sequences ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 2 are at voltage V.sub. ⁇ and other sequences are at zero voltage.
- period T 3 only clock sequence ⁇ 3 is at high level, and during the last period T 4 , ⁇ 3 and ⁇ 4 are at high level. Note that the time constant value C 1 -R 1 is much smaller than period T 1 or T 2 and the time constant value C 2 -R 2 is much smaller than period T 3 or T 4 .
- This voltage adds up to the voltage developed across capacitor 15, presenting a voltage 2 V.sub. ⁇ to gate G 1 .
- the voltage at gate G 1 rises to the level 2 V CC
- the voltage at the drain D 2 of MOSFET 16 is driven to V CC as shown at 31a if V CC is equal to or lower than 2 V.sub. ⁇ -V Te (where V Te is the threshold voltage of enhancement mode MOSFET 13), or driven to 2 V.sub. ⁇ -V Te if V CC is higher than 2 V.sub. ⁇ -V Te .
- the voltage at the output terminal 22 increases exponentially in a stepwise manner. Specifically, it exponentially increases to a level V.sub. ⁇ -2 V Te during T 1 , rises to a level V CC -V Te during T 2 , and jumps to a level V CC +V.sub. ⁇ -V Te during T 3 .
- the voltage at the gate G 2 of MOSFET 16 rapidly rises as shown at 32b to a level which is three times as high as the source voltage V CC .
- This voltage level is equal to the potential at the drain G 2 plus 2 V.sub. ⁇ . Since the time constant C 2 -R 2 is much smaller than period T 4 , the voltage at gate G 2 decays exponentially to the same voltage level as at the drain D 2 during period T 4 .
- the voltage at the output terminal 22 further increases to the level 2 V CC .
- the voltage obtained by the use of a single pull-up circuit of this invention is equal to V.sub. ⁇ if V.sub. ⁇ ⁇ V Te or 2 V.sub. ⁇ -V Te if V.sub. ⁇ ⁇ V Te .
- V.sub. ⁇ >V Te /2 Since the voltage V.sub. ⁇ of the clock sequences for MOS integrated circuitry is usually equal to the source voltage V CC , the charge pump of this invention can operate satisfactorily even when the source voltage is at very low level. For example, if V Te is 1.0 volt, the charge pump will operate at a source voltage of 0.5 volts.
- a higher output voltage can be obtained by cascading pull-up circuits 12-1, 12-2 and 12-3 as shown in FIG. 6 such that the phases of clock sequences supplied to the even-numbered stage 12-2 are opposite to the phases of clock sequences supplied to the odd-numbered pull-up circuits 12-1, 12-3.
- the output voltage V OUT is equal to the voltage at drain D 2 plus NV.sub. ⁇ if V.sub. ⁇ is equal to or higher than V Te , or equal to the voltage at drain D 2 plus N(2 V.sub. ⁇ -V Te ) if V.sub. ⁇ is lower than V Te (where N is the number of cascaded pull-up circuits).
- resistors 14 and 17 are preferably replaced with N-channel depletion mode MOSFETs 40 and 41, respectively, as shown in FIG. 7.
- Each of these MOSFETs has its gate and drain electrodes coupled together to form an equivalent resistance element.
- the gate and source electrodes may be coupled together to form a resistor.
- FIG. 8 A modified embodiment of this invention is shown in FIG. 8 which differs from the embodiment of FIG. 4 in that the charge-up circuit of FIG. 1 is replaced with an N-channel depletion mode MOSFET 43 having a threshold voltage -V Td .
- the gate of MOSFET 43 is coupled to the first clock terminal ⁇ 1 with its drain D and source S being coupled respectively to terminal 21 and drain D 2 of MOSFET 16.
- the voltage at drain D 2 of MOSFET 16 is equal to V CC if V CC is equal to or smaller than V.sub. ⁇ +V Td , or V.sub. ⁇ +V Td if V CC is higher than V.sub. ⁇ +V Td .
- V CC V.sub. ⁇ +V Td
- source voltage V CC must also be higher than the absolute value of the threshold V Td to ensure that MOSFET 43 turns off when the first clock sequence ⁇ 1 is at low voltage.
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